Home by Stacia Kane

Author:Stacia Kane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Adult
ISBN: 9781466815179
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-02-14T03:00:00+00:00

4.

“Like that dude Tyson, aye?” Terrible slid the Chevelle up against the curb two streets away from the Solomons’ house. “Got a ghost inside.”

“Right. He’s not as creepy, but he’s still sharing his body with a ghost. That’s why they have all those sigils and shit on the windowsills and doors. They’ve made their house a spirit home to keep the ghost there.”

Terrible got out of the car, came around to open Chess’s door for her, a little habit of his. She’d wondered a few times where it came from, why he did it; certainly he hadn’t had a mother or father to teach him. He’d grown up like her. Well, he’d grown up both better and worse than her, sleeping on the streets or being taken care of for a week or two by the occasional drunk or lonely junkie instead of being moved from foster home to foster home like she’d been, beaten or raped by a string of shithead rent-a-parents, starved or treated well all according to chance.

“Why do you do that?” she asked, as they started walking toward the Solomon house with his hand engulfing hers, making her feel safe. “With the door, I mean. I always wondered.”

“Ain’t you like it?”

“I do, I just wonder where it came from.”

“One of Bump’s dames. Brenda, were her name. Told me I should.”

“Bump’s women taught you a lot of things.”

“Aye.” He grinned down at her. “Recall I tell you on Lisa?”

“The one who taught you how to read?”

“Ain’t all she taught me.”

She stopped, and gave his hand a little tug to make him do the same. His puzzled expression relaxed when she reached for him, wrapping her arms around his neck to press her lips to his. “I think she did a very good job.”

His hands slid further down her back, all the way down to hold her bottom and pull her closer. “Aye? Thinkin maybe I forgot me some, maybe you oughta give me some reminding. True thing, ain’t wanna lose the knowledge.”

“Later.”

It sucked to pull away from him, but she had to. If nothing else, they stood in the middle of somebody’s lawn in a strange neighborhood at one in the morning. Not really the time or place to start taking off clothes.

He obviously disagreed. His strong arms stayed around her, trapping her against him as he kissed her again. Harder this time. Deeper. Deeper still, until her blood pounded in her veins and her hands wouldn’t stop moving, exploring his back under his shirt, tucking themselves into his jeans.

“Let’s get us back in the car.” His voice, low and thick in her ear, made her shiver.

“No.” One last kiss before she pulled away again. This time he let her go. “Let’s just get this done. Then we have the whole night. In bed.”

The streetlight on the corner cast half of his face in shadow, but the visible half clearly showed him calculating how likely he was to get her back into the car.

Not likely. She tugged on his hand.

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